Man tries to rob clerk but takes loss instead

STOCKTON — A man attempted to rob a store in the 2000 block of East Mariposa Road shortly before 4 p.m. Thursday but lost money instead, authorities said.

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STOCKTON — A man attempted to rob a store in the 2000 block of East Mariposa Road shortly before 4 p.m. Thursday but lost money instead, authorities said.

The man reached for the open cash register drawer after paying for a pack of cigarettes, but an employee pushed the man’s arm away and began fighting with him, police said. The man let go of the drawer and fled on foot, leaving behind the cash and the cigarettes he purchased.

He was described as a 30-year-old black man wearing a long, curly wig, a blue hooded jacket, light blue jeans, white tennis shoes and a baseball cap with an orange bill.